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ABOUT PAPER

About Paper

Fundamentals of Paper

This guide will help you to understand the variables that occur during the paper-making process that influence paper performance, and why paper may not always work the way you think it should. You’ll be able to use this knowledge where it really counts... when making paper choices for documents that are important to you.

Let’s take a look at the papermaking machines.

Running at speeds of 3000 feet a minute, the typical paper machine produces about 800 tons of paper a day. This may sound like a lot of paper. But when you consider that companies produce more than a trillion documents each year, it’s easy to see why large capacity paper machines are important to business.

Why do we produce so many documents?

The driving force is computer technology. Initially intended to create a paperless office, the digital revolution has had quite the opposite impact. Information now moves more rapidly, we work faster, and generate more paper documents. Paper is more important today than ever, as advanced print technology and desktop publishing applications enable users to create more sophisticated, professional-looking documents from their desktop computers.

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